🐈
Cat
Felis catus
Carnivores
vs
🐘
Elephant
Loxodonta africana
Mammals · Endangered
2 clips name both of them
2,162 views between them.
Elephant outweighs Cat 1170× — 4,565 kg against 3.9 kg.
To scale
Grid at 1 m
1 m
2 m
3 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic (CC0).
Cat
0.26 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Elephant
2.80 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
3.9 kg
🐈 Cat · AnAge
4,565 kg
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.26 m
🐈 Cat
2.8 m
🐘 Elephant
Body length
no figure yet
🐈 Cat
7.5 m
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🐈 Cat
25 km/h
🐘 Elephant
Maximum lifespan
30 yr
🐈 Cat · AnAge
80 yr
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.
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Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Theria (subclass), home to 9,319 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 91 million years ago.
Estimates range from 78 to 117 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).